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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1892
Page
2
In advance rates listed as $1.50 per inch per month. Editor and Proprietor J C Kuasey is identified in the masthead.
The slate lists Grover Cleveland for President and Adlai E. Stevenson for Vice President. It includes statewide figures W W Dixon Governor T Escollins Lieut Governor H R Melton Treasurer Jesse Hastings Secretary of State B W Polk and others including F Day Attorney General W Y Pemberton Chief Justice J Mahoney Superintendent J R Sloane and electors A W Lyman Paul Fusz Walter Cooper.
The county ticket lists candidates across offices including Senator F L Murphy Neihart Representative W E Tierney Townsend and W H Sutherlin White Sulphur Springs Sheriff James O Mara White Sulphur Springs County Clerk A W Shriber Diamond City Assessor J J Hennessy White Treasurer J C Tipton White Public Administrator Dr J L Belcher Townsend Coroner Dr McKay White Supt of Schools Mrs L A Baker Munselshell and County Commissioners W Turner Neihart J S Kelley Castle W D McCormack Missouri Valley.
Jefferson County party lists candidates for county offices including Sheriff Dudley Halford Assessor Alex Gilliam County Attorney M H Parker Clerk District Court J G Rickert Clerk Recorder Eugene Picot Treasurer Edward McSorley Supt of Schools Miss dja Lowrey Coroner Dr W C Riddel Surveyor R M Cralle Representatives Ben Wahle J W Dowena 8 F Tuttle County Commissioners Dr A L Vawter John F Sheehy John Flaherty.
The paper notes a legal rule: mineral patent applications must be published in the newspaper nearest the claim. It warns against illegal publication, lists Beaver Creek Park St Louis Rodersburg Dogtown districts, and states only Meseemere is proper for such notices. It adds a critique of Montana murder verdicts and juror leniency, arguing for strict enforcement of capital punishment and reflecting on state crime and wealth figures.
Great Falls sits 40 miles above the head of navigation on the Missouri with the Black Eagle Falls power. The city houses a large smelter and concentrator, electric street railway, mills, and extensive manufacturing along with a booming pay roll. It boasts sandstone and brick buildings, wide streets, a 1200-seat opera house, a seven mile boulevard, and a growing population of 10,000 as Cascade County’s county seat and regional distributing point.
The note surveys Victor Hugo’s temperamental cat and early English works such as a Troy history from 1474, explains the word turne with its varied meanings, cites New York paper counts before 1885, dialect evolution, Darwinian linguistic impact, Aristophanes’ long polysyllabic line, Brewer’s omissions, Poe’s Tamerlane first edition copy sold for £370 in Boston with the sole other known copy in the British Museum library.
Mexry Cray's fine statue in Lexington courthouse square will be duplicated for the fair. The Illinois Women's Pharmaceutical Association plans a model pharmacy at the Illinois building. An exact facsimile of the famed Loris Rey mission will be shown. A New York man offers a snakes collection for exhibition. Argentine railways grant half tariffs and free passes for exposition travel. Canadian Pacific reduces rates for exhibits from China and Japan to Vancouver and Chicago with substantial savings.
The article notes a tiny Siberian pigmy morse as the smallest quadruped. It claims the czar’s personal tax haul exceeds the republic of Prince. It mentions reforms, scarce Warri oil centers, and a nine hundred year anniversary in Volhynia. It reports crown jewels valued at 11 million dollars with diamonds and fifty four pearls.
A fragmentary column lists varied items from Winfred West Virginia to Georgia and Maryland. It notes a mute man dying at home after sneezing, mentions Moody Chapin Ed wards and Beechers as non graduates or college bred, praises M C Crespy as a mining millionaire, and records remarkable feet in Henderson Tennessee. It also recounts Abraham Ireland’s whitening and a teen marriage near Choopee Georgia.
The column notes historic instrument use in ancient Greece and Rome, reports Mike Nolan earning 214000 from Annie Rooney and 16000 from I Whistled and Waited for Kate, mentions Prem Smorxt the music teacher to royalty, cites Leopold Stokowski or Paderewski style tone notes, and quotes Rabenstein on the gendered limits of creativity.
Denmark awards 97000 for world fair display while over 180 exhibitors from Philadelphia join. Foreign nation appropriations exceed 84509000. Silk associations join to present Silk goods. A 160 by 260 foot building costing 100000 pounds rises near Horticultural Hall for music and choruses. Indians from Peruvian forests and Peruvian paintings are slated for Peru’s exhibit.
The registry law sets hours for registration from September 1 to October 5 at 2 to 8 p m and from October 5 to October 15 from 10 a m to 10 p m on election days. Voters must be 21, US citizens, state resident one year county resident 30 days precinct resident 30 days. Final naturalization papers required for those naturalized after 1880.
The piece notes diverse topics from women’s roles to charity and clubs. It cites a Ruth Burnett entering a Sisters of Charity, bicycle clubs in large towns, and a Frenchwoman gaining liberty while an Englishwoman loses hers in a Max O'Rell quote.
The article lists large numbers of Freemasons and Odd Fellows in the United States. It notes a Chicago society called Manasseh limited to colored men with white wives. D G Ramsay commands a sizeable force as grand chief of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers. New Yonkers forms a society with branches in Philadelphia to curb church bell noise.
Dan Lavost earned 85 a week ten years ago and now reportedly makes 100 000 a year. Mas Hannon shows growing skill as a water color artist with works gracing the White House. Mae West, wife of a Missouri senator, is described as quiet and domestic with dark brown eyes. Resexot Hannison applies for congress press gallery admission as Helena Journal correspondent. Wilde notes a quip about Mrs Leslie and himself illustrating contrasting work ethics.
The king of Grease speaks twelve languages while the Tur emperor of Austria writes to the pope weekly. Cannes Sylva of Roumania nears recovery and plans a Bucharest return after months abroad. The Portuguese royals move to a refurbished Ne cessidades palace, and the Tur empress orders 50,000 rose trees around a Heine statue on Corfa rock high above sea level.
New South Wales census shows population 1,192,234, up from 1581 by 768. Brazil owns two million acres of coffee. Empress Josephine’s marble slab will travel to Panama for the world fair exhibit. Mexico has seen fifty four presidents in sixty two years, with frequent violent changes in government including Maximilian.
The Mining and Scientific Press notes that ore quantity matters more than richness. The Alaska Treadwell mine on Douglas Island yielded 707000 in ore valued at 2.95 per ton, yet showed a profit of 961980 on total yield, with 1200000 tons in sight. The mine’s vast low grade ore supports large mills and modern equipment.
The new West Point fourth class will total 206 cadets. French dragoon helmets use human hair. France’s torpedo boat No 149 covered two hours at 241 knots average and over 26 knots max with 342 revolutions. A Solferino battle calculation finds 700 bullets per wounded and 4,200 per killed.
A dealer claims long experience selling Dr. Kings New Discovery for Consumption Dr Kings New Life Pills Bracklin Amnica Salve and Electric Bitters with guaranteed refunds if not satisfactory. The endorsement credits merit and customer trust to the line.
Advertises Electric Bitters as the leading pure medicine for stomach, liver, and kidney ailments. Claims cure for sick headache indigestion and constipation and malaria, with guaranteed satisfaction or refund. Price five cents?
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